to not take my neighbours parcel over?

Fairly new neighbour, been here a few months now. I'd say at least once a fortnight since she moved in (sometimes more!) I've taken in parcels for her. I'm home most of the day so it's not an issue. She has never once collected and I have always ended up taking them to her. Whenever I've given them to her she's seemed surprised so I just presumed cards haven't been left.

On Monday the postman knocked with a parcel for me as I was leaving to take the kids to school, he asked if I could take in ndn parcel as well as she's not there. Not a problem. He asked if he should leave a card or would I be seeing her. I asked him to leave the card. I saw him fill out the card and put it in her letterbox. Yet I still have the parcel.

I feel really petty as I could just take it around but she's quite ninja like and I never see her come or go so it's always a guess as to whether she's home or not. It's annoying popping round and then having to lug the parcel back home if she's not there.

Aibu to think she's taking the piss a bit and if she wants her parcel she should come and get it?

If i hadn't seen the postman leave the card I wouldn't have thought anything about taking it over. As I've said, I just presumed cards hadn't been left previously so she had no idea where it was. But because I know she knows this time it's annoyed me, perhaps irrationally but there you go!

If I take a parcel in for a neighbour I always ask the delivery person to put a card through their door. If you know that cards have been left and they're not collecting their parcels, don't accept their parcels. I never used to accept parcels for the loud, obnoxious students who used to live next door to us. Some delivery people weren't very happy, but I wasn't going to help out neighbours who were rude to us.

You are not her parcel depot and delivery service. When she collects it, smile and say "it would be great if you could just come and collect the parcels when you get in and see the card the postie/courier has left - thanks so much, bye!"

Then if it continues - because stuff like this is annoying, it makes you feel a bit taken for granted - stop accepting deliveries for her.

My neighbours were like this - although it started to get out of hand. Their teen started shopping off Amazon as if it was going out of fashion and put down our house number if not in. Several parcels a day every day and often not collected.

My neighbours used to do this - loads of parcels delivered to me, but I always had to drop them round. Eventually I got a cob on and stubbornly dug my heels in. Their package sat in my hall for over two weeks before they turned up.

To be fair, I have found cards slid under something in my hallway before, ages after I found the parcel in my “safe place”. Thankfully it’s not happened on the rare occasion a parcel has gone to a neighbour.

I would stop accepting them, you're not a sorting office! I work from home and in our old place people in our street started to twig I was always around so suddenly I was being asked to take in all sorts - including a massive rug that took up my hallway! After that I said no to all parcels except for my NDN, who always came round to collect the second she got home.